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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

 Homalanthus nutans (Euphorbiaceae)

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List of Ethnobotany Plant
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Uses Country/Region Reference
Ache(Stomach) Samoa *
Circumcision Samoa *
Gonorrhea Solomon I Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Pertussis Samoa *
Sore Samoa *
Stomach Fiji Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Witchcraft Solomon I Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Wound Samoa *
*Unless otherwise noted all references are to Duke, James A. 1992. Handbook of phytochemical constituents of GRAS herbs and other economic plants. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press.